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I liked it. I’m the rare person who prefers the Brian books to the frank books, though, so… 🤷🏻‍♀️

It did stick pretty close to the source with a couple differences.

It’s 10000y after present, 10000y before Paul… and they were called free men, not freman. But yeah they were mining spice at this point, they had only realized how valuable it is in that last hundred years or so. Valya DID invent the voice. Though she was much more of a bitch in the books.

Still no guild yet, so youll notice there are no heighliners

As an aside, when I talked to my therapist this week about the volunteering, she was surprised I went so far outside my comfort zone, and she was proud of me for taking the initiative to reach out to someone I don’t really know.

She also says that I seem to be handling everything much better than some of the other people she talks to, and that’s 100% because I used my energy to help. Had we talked 2 weeks ago, it would have been a vastly different story.

Guess I owe seahorse a fee for his impromptu therapy session over signal :D

This is good advice, it legit helped me.

I was in pretty bad shape Wednesday morning, so I dm’d seahorse (knowing that he and I share similar interests such as guillotines). We talked a bit and he directed me to someone he knows in https://linktr.ee/servethepeopleakron

I contacted them, signed up to volunteer, bought a bunch of packaged food at Costco, and went to the Sunday serve to hand it out with the group.

I will say that doing this was far beyond my comfort zone so I was pretty nervous due to social anxiety, but once I got there and it started rolling, it was nothing to worry about. Took about an hour, we handed out a bunch of food and supplies to the needy, and that was that.

Afterward I kind of felt like crying, but not necessarily in a bad way; it was good to use my pent up angst to help people instead of just seething, and I’m not used to that kind of emotional outlet. And the members of STP all share the same basic attitude I have so it was awesome meeting them.

What I WANT to do is burn cop cars and throw bricks, but realistically I am 44 and have a wife and kids. I can’t exactly act like I did when I was in my 20s with no responsibilities; so I will volunteer with STP when I can, and when I can’t volunteer I will support them monetarily and via food donations.

Evidently, yes.

We will deserve the pandemic we get.

America will anyway, sorry rest of the world. We’re morons

Cry havoc and let slip the dongs of war

Yeah it’s amazing. It’s my go to reader for vacations, have it at the pool and beach. I don’t know about waterproof per se, but it’s resisted kids splashing me and me dropping it a bunch.

Sorry, I strip it from Amazon ebooks. There’s a plugin for calibre called deDRM that does it, it’s pretty simple once you get it setup.

Just import book, and the drm is gone.

I got the kobo bw. I spent a weekend downloading all 500some ebooks I’ve purchased off Amazon (which they do not make easy) to my laptop. Then I imported them into calibre, stripped all drm, and loaded them onto the kobo.

It’s great, I love it.

Coward shit.

One less pig.

Fuck em.